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In her essay included in that year’s awards booklet...

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But if Moonlight was inseparable from its dark cultural moment — the anguish of Black Lives Matter and the disillusioning election of Trump — its victory in our poll suggests that Jenkins’ film will also transcend its epoch, offering a timeless study of self-discovery and tenderness. Or, perhaps, we remain so fixated on Moonlight because, sadly, we still find ourselves in the dispiriting reality this exceptional film unconsciously chronicled so vividly.

Art is political like water is wet.